I grew up in the 1990s, and though I had an Amiga during that time, there was a big debate - much as XBox vs PS3 is the debate of today, while back then it was Nintendo vs SEGA.

SEGA needed a mascot against Nintendo's Mario, and one of its subsidiaries was turned into Sonic Team once the name had been established, and it should not be surprising, then, that today we're looking at the original Sonic the Hedgehog.